You’d have to ask their families to do the same though. Once covid is in the household…
Covid Outbreak at Man Utd
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You’d have to ask their families to do the same though. Once covid is in the household…
I don't think he just had since the background picture is Norwich, it was yesterday probably which explained why there is no schedule for press conference today.
Frustrating to say the least but health comes first. Hope they make a full recovery
Is the Brighton game this weekend going to go ahead or not?
Is the Brighton game this weekend going to go ahead or not?
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Any chance this effects Brighton on Saturday? I’m travelling up on Friday night for this so slightly concerned.
If Brentford gets called off. Surely Brighton will too
Sky reported 4 positive tests amongst players. I doubt Saturday will be postponed too unless that number goes up. Spurs had 8 players and 5 staff I think.
Something weird is going on with the LFTs I reckon. In the last two weeks my daughter has had two positive tests and my son one. The family as a whole has had general cold symptoms off and on for most of this month, but every single one of us has had negative PCR results each time.
Apparently around September/October time there was a huge increase in the south east UK of positive LFTs followed by negative PCRs. This then spread around the country and was apparently being looked into as a matter of urgency, but that was the last I heard of it.
Personally I think the most likely explanation is there is some degree of cross-reactivity going on between the "normal" coronaviruses (common cold) and Covid-19. I'm not an expert, but led to believe they share similar characteristics. The LFTs are probably looking at a broader spectrum, whereas the PCR tests are more specific.
Apparently around September/October time there was a huge increase in the south east UK of positive LFTs followed by negative PCRs. This then spread around the country and was apparently being looked into as a matter of urgency, but that was the last I heard of it.
Personally I think the most likely explanation is there is some degree of cross-reactivity going on between the "normal" coronaviruses (common cold) and Covid-19. I'm not an expert, but led to believe they share similar characteristics. The LFTs are probably looking at a broader spectrum, whereas the PCR tests are more specific.
Should be able to effectively isolate who is positive and not positive in a couple of days, weekend game should be fine. Tomorrow's game I'm guessing will be rescheduled to the first open midweek, likely January 5th?
It’s not unheard of pre-COVID for footballers to be separate from their families over the gruelling Christmas schedule. Admittedly there must be holes in that idea, but it seems better than just postponing game after game.
My wife had a pcr positive then did her own lft the same night and negative. Odd?
Oh man
Brentford will get called off because it's too soon and there's no way to isolate in time who is all negative and who is all positive. Can easily get all that set by wednesday/Thursday, have training Thursday and Friday, play on Saturday.
I'd say yes it will, especially with Brighton struggling with it too
Not totally unsubstantiated regarding myocarditis as a potential side effect of the vaccine. But maybe a bitn of a quick jump to a conclusion.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html
Anyway, the Brentford game being requested to be postponed is not good. I hope this has not spread through the squad significantly and wonder what implications it will have on other competitions too? It's a busy fixture period in December. Hard to play catchup.
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Pretty rubbish job protecting against it though isn't it? First vaccine as well that's ever required other people to take it for it to be effective yet it shows it's not really that effective, there will be several more strains in the next few years just wait.
LFT have high rate of false negatives
Depends how many positive cases we have in not just our squad but Brighton squad too
Darn, we need void the season for real this time.
Heehee
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It will be calling off the next few if Spurs are anything to go by
You’d think that would give us sufficient time to isolate the positive cases? Although they’ve got an outbreak now too.
What? It does a very good job at preventing serious illness. You can still get the flu even if you get the flu vaccine. You're just most likely not going to get serious influenza. You need a new influenza vaccine every single year as the strain is constantly adapting, so a new vaccine is needed to combat that strain more effectively.
It's incredibly standard vaccine stuff. It's like a seatbelt, you can still get injured if you wear one but your odds are a hell of a lot better than if you don't. Others need to get it because covid is transmissed and mutates a lot more quickly among unvaccinated. If everyone got fully vaccinated, there would be a massive reduction if not full elimination. But it's pretty much impossible to vaccinate everyone at the same time, or quarantine everyone on the planet at the same time, so it's about managing it as best as possible. So you take the thing that both reduces the chance of you getting covid, and reduces the harm it can cause in case you do get it.
Is there any confirmation if the game will called off?
This is how all vaccine programmes work.
Do we know which players and staff have tested positive?
It’s truly astonishing that after all this time this still needs to be explained to people. I don’t know when people suddenly chose to be deliberately stupid. Is it intentional? Is it wummery? I dunno.
Not yet, but they're still in talks with the Premier League it seems.
PL could force us to send a report how many of our players have tested positive and if the number is small then there is no way they would accept it right?
I agree that postponements aren’t sustainable. Amongst the general population, the likelihood of being exposed to the Omicron variant over the coming weeks is high - so every team is going to be dealing with positive cases.
How long before tomorrows match do they have to make a 100% definite decision?
Thinking surely it can’t get to tomorrow morning with any doubt
Thinking surely it can’t get to tomorrow morning with any doubt
I used to laugh at dumb things people think and do but with this, the idiots are literally harming all of society.
Absolutely sick of it.
No excuses, it will still be on probably. Unless if lot of players from the Norwich games just tested positive.
I work as a GP, and our practice don't listen to lateral flows at all. I've reviewed several patients who've had "negative lateral flows" before I visit them on a home visit, and seeing them floridly septic and refer them to hospital for that arrival PCR to return positive. There's a reason why PCRs are better, even if they take longer to show results.
All this "everyones lateral flows were negative before Norwich" - to me it means nothing. Given what has occurred, chances are one of them could have easily been a false negative.
Good to hear, hopefully that number stays low.
It means there was no reason to cancel the training today due to the whole facilities being affected by the covid outbreak. We could be using it as an excuse to tell PL we can't proceed the game tomorrow.
Any speculations/rumours on which players/staff members are ill?
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